diff --git a/Contributors.asciidoc b/Contributors.asciidoc
index b4054d38..dd4c6e2b 100644
--- a/Contributors.asciidoc
+++ b/Contributors.asciidoc
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ CONTRIBUTOR LIST
 |Gal Hammer (Red Hat, https://www.redhat.com)                   |ghammer at redhat.com
 |John Oberschelp                                                |john at oberschelp.net
 |John Tyner                                                     |jtyner at gmail.com
+|Pedro Frejo (Arpa System, https://arpasystem.com)              |pedro.frejo at arpasystem.com
 |Sam Kelly (DuroSoft Technologies LLC, https://durosoft.com)    |sam at durosoft.com
 |Santiago Ganis                                                 |sganis at gmail.com
 |Tobias Urlaub                                                  |saibotu at outlook.de
diff --git a/src/dll/fuse/fuse_intf.c b/src/dll/fuse/fuse_intf.c
index df03e810..ae79d737 100644
--- a/src/dll/fuse/fuse_intf.c
+++ b/src/dll/fuse/fuse_intf.c
@@ -1030,14 +1030,12 @@ static NTSTATUS fsp_fuse_intf_Open(FSP_FILE_SYSTEM *FileSystem,
          * Some Windows applications (notably Go programs) specify FILE_APPEND_DATA without
          * FILE_WRITE_DATA when opening files for appending. This caused the WinFsp-FUSE layer
          * to erroneously pass O_RDONLY to the FUSE file system in such cases. We add a test
-         * for FILE_APPEND_DATA to ensure that either O_WRONLY or O_RDWR is specified and that
-         * the O_APPEND flag is set.
+         * for FILE_APPEND_DATA to ensure that either O_WRONLY or O_RDWR is specified.
          */
         if (GrantedAccess & FILE_APPEND_DATA)
         {
             if (fi.flags == 0)
                 fi.flags = 1; /* need O_WRONLY as a bare minimum in order to append */
-            fi.flags |= 8/*O_APPEND*/;
         }
 
         if (0 != f->ops.open)